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2023 Hettinger County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Hettinger County, ND went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 3,720 customer-hours (North Dakota average 4.1 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2331st of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with ND, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Hettinger County, 2023
The 6 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 5, 2023 09:15 | September 5, 2023 11:45 | 2h 30m | 1,031 | 965 |
| 2 | August 18, 2023 06:15 | August 18, 2023 09:15 | 3h | 498 | 1,490 |
| 3 | September 5, 2023 16:45 | September 5, 2023 17:45 | 1h | 490 | 487 |
| 4 | September 5, 2023 13:45 | September 5, 2023 15:15 | 1h 30m | 482 | 719 |
| 5 | September 7, 2023 02:30 | September 7, 2023 04:45 | 2h 15m | 14 | 31 |
| 6 | May 4, 2023 12:30 | May 4, 2023 15:15 | 2h 45m | 10 | 28 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 4 reached 100+ customers, 1 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Hettinger County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Roughrider Electric Cooperativ | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mor-Gran-Sou Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Slope Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of North Dakota's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,966 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Hettinger County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hettinger County, ND annual power outage report, 2023, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2023/north-dakota/hettinger-county